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  • Joan Scheckel & The Technique™

    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    Joan Scheckel is an internationally renowned creator of The Technique™, a highly influential approach to writing, directing, and filmmaking craft in Hollywood.

    Free

  • Screening of “Secret Mall Apartment” with artist Michael Townsend

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    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    Jeremy Workman's 2025 documentary "Secret Mall Apartment" tells the story of eight Rhode Island artists who created a secret apartment inside the Providence Place Mall, living undetected for four years. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved—both a creative protest against gentrification and a compelling examination […]

    Free

  • You are Being Taped!

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    Haas Concourse and Lobby, Watson Fine Arts

    Join Leah Smith (Wheaton class of 2014) and Michael Townsend of the Providence-based Tape Art studio to help create an original tape-based mural in the Haas Concourse & Lobby of Watson Fine Arts.

  • Author and Illustrator Mike Curato

    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    Join us for a presentation by Mike Curato, author of the graphic novel Flamer which received several honors including the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Young Adult, the 2021 Massachusetts Book Award for Young Adult, and was listed as one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020. Flamer also has the distinction of being one of the top 10 banned books of 2024, and Mike has become a fierce advocate of free speech.

  • Film Screening: The Arc of Oblivion

    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    From executive producer Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams; Grizzly Man) and director Ian Cheney (King Corn), The Arc of Oblivion is an unexpectedly playful search for an answer to a deeply existential question. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker’s quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield—to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara—to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.

    Free

  • Readings by the Writer—Robyn Schiff

    Mary Lyon Hall - Woolley Room Norton, MA, United States

    Schiff will read from her most recent book, Information Desk: An Epic (2023) which is situated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked at the information desk in her young adulthood.

    Free

  • Readings by the Writer: Kate Colby

    Mary Lyon Hall - May Room Norton, MA

    Kate Colby reads from her work including Paradoxx, her new collection of essays.

    Free

  • The Mary Bloor Loser ’42 Concert Series presents Powerful Voices: We Shall Overcome

    Cole Memorial Chapel Norton, MA, United States

    Renowned guest conductor Donnell Patterson, founding director of Boston's Millennium Gospel Choir, joins the Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers, led by Alexandra Lutkevich, for an electrifying and powerful evening of music celebrating the contributions of Black American composers.